As of March 2026, this website is no longer being updated. I now work mainly on climate issues, especially in Brighton and Hove, and new work can be found on the website of Climate:Change, our independent think-tank on socially inclusive action in the City: www.climatechangebh.org.uk.
Meanwhile, however, this website has over 850 entries, mostly representing my work on international development from 2010-2025. Among much else, there are over 50 book reviews, more than 20 papers and training cases on bridging research and policy and on managing think-tanks, and many papers on other topics, including aid, food security and nutrition, and the future of international development. See ‘Topics and Themes’ for more details. I can be reached at sm@simonmaxwell.net.
Development Frontiers: where poverty and sustainability meet
This is to draw people’s attention to the ESRC-DFID Development Frontiers Research Call, which I am directing. This is a £2.5m call on the intersection between poverty, sustainability and conflict/fragility, designed to encourage innovative, cross-disciplinary and multi-level (macro-micro) research on the ‘wicked problem’ of delivering simultaneously both poverty reduction and especially climate goals. A scoping paper is here.
Details of the call are still being finalised, but in the meantime, a workshop was organised to discuss the scope of the call and the modalities of new collaborations. There were some great speakers and a great discussion. The report has been published and is strongly recommended. Powerpoints are also available, by me, Nick Mabey, Prof Frances Stewart, and Prof Johan Schot.
I will post further details of the call as they emerge, but the primary source is the ESRCEconomic and Social Research Council website, here.
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